Friday, 9 September 2016

Baby Come Back - The Equals

There wasn't a sign of a 'raindrop' on the Bournemouth International Airport weather website yesterday morning but even before the sun was up (06:33) a number of heavy pulses of the stuff had fallen on Parley Court Farm. They also had the wind wrong, but only the rate as it was blowing from the west, but almost double the 12 knots they had predicted.

HARBINS WILLOW TREE

This made for a slow start to the day, you cannot sensibly monitor
Moth Traps in such conditions, which despite a good deal of leg-work
brought scant reward. Good job then that since the beginning of this month
a number of more common birds, not recorded at all throughout August,
suddenly started making appearances right across our Recording Area
which we had committed to film!

BLUE TIT

SKYLARK

male and female

BULLFINCH

even aREED WARBLER
put in a brief appearance at the Irrigation Pond while

CETTI'S WARBLER

are now singing on a daily basis all along out beat of the River Stour.

LONG-TAILED TIT
suddenly started appearing, seemingly in every bush and tree, but

COAL TIT

have remained far less numerous.

Again this year there has been great success with breeding

KINGFISHER
which kept extremely low profile during the summer but are now
bombing up and down the river and throughout Harbins Garden
with the highest count having been 7. We have now set the Trail Cameras
at favoured perches in the hope of even more snaps.

DUNNOCK

BLACKCAP
female and

male have also emerged from the shadows and it has seemed
somewhat strange not to have seen/heard either

GREAT TIT
or

GOLDCREST
for this long.

Finally, we turn our attention to the
Harbins Bird Table
where just yesterday c2

NUTHATCH,
a scarce bird here, were making an almighty din while filling their crops

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Born Beeston, Notts 1946, my family moved to Dorset 1959. Joined the Royal Navy age 15 years and 50 days serving 10 years. In frigates firstly then over 5 years in Submarines as a Seaman/Diver, reaching the dizzy heights of Leading Seaman before leaving to join the Merchant Service, working in Ocean Salvage and Harbour Tugs, passenger / cargo ships, trials vessels, etc. Qualified as Mate (Chief Officer) in 1976 and as Master (Captain) in 1978. For my final 20 years of 47 I worked in the Offshore Oil Industry initially on the drilling rig Stena Hunter, then the accommodation barge Borgland Dolphin and finally the Floating Production Platform Buchan Alpha. On the rigs I forged a number of long lasting friendships several of whom shared some of my extensive travels. Setting foot on Caymen, Bermuda, Bahamas and The Azores in March 2013 brought my countries total to 147. The best, undoubtedly, was Antarctica, followed by Australia, Mongolia, Belize, Zimbabwe, China and Madagascar, in no particular order. As for my greatest achievement in life, my 2 beautiful daughters bear witness to that. Love to all our readers, your in my thoughts. Bagsy